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Office Commissary General of Subsistence
Washington City January 10th 1868

Colonel:
Your letter of the 9th instant, in relation to the issues now made by you under the requirements of the Bureau of Refugees, &c — the force necessary to effect these issues to conduct the Soup-House and to perform other services connected with the Subsistence of the persons provided for by the agency of that Bureau, has been received. 

It is my opinion that all those services should be performed by the Officers and Agents of that Bureau, that they should conduct the Soup House: make their own detailad or personal issues — of rations or soup — and that your duty as Commissary should be limited to furnishing the Officers of that Bureau on the proper requisition and on their receipts, with the Subsistence stores called for.

The Subsistence Department has not and cannot properly and generally employ the personnel necessary for making charities administered by the Bureau of Refugees &c.

You will therefore call upon the resident Assistance Commissary of that Bureau, to arrange for relieving you from making such personal and detailed issues at such

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